What Happens After Midnight (Award Winning Horror Short Film)
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- čas přidán 21. 03. 2024
- A lonely hotel clerk finds both his motivation and sanity starting to slip as a series of increasingly bizarre events unfold after the clock strikes 12 every night...
STARRING Colbe Range, Gianna Arianas, Yasmine Harrell and Jorge Valero
Written and Directed by Jack Wickliffe/Produced by Jack Wickliffe, Cathy Cuevas, and Yasmine Harrell/Edited by Jack Wickliffe, Cathy Cuevas, and Zach Melendez/Cinematography by Zach Melendez/Music by Sofia Frasz
SPECIAL THANKS to management and staff at the Hampton Inn Boca Raton
OFFICIAL SELECTION at 9 festivals including Indie Shorts Fest LA, Hollywood Florida Film Festival, and Horror Screenings Bloody Mirror.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS include BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR at HFFF, AUDIENCE AWARD at Horror Screenings Bloody Mirror and Lift-Off International, BEST MYSTERY SHORT, BEST FIRST-TIME DIRECTOR, and BEST ACTOR (Range) at Indie Shorts Fest LA.
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I work night shift in an hotel, and the automatic sliding doors opens without anybody there, happens more often than it should
😬🫨😲😳
I would absolutely piss myself.
Oh, obviously, i watch a fuckton of horror movies or scary video on yt, that make the door opening tasty
@@margaret6839 I would piss all over the door
have you considered that something's up with your hotel? 👀
I wouldn't have let her in without ID.
At least check to see if she was actually a guest, so that part was not believable.
Oh, come on, he was just trying to be kind to the girl!
Me too. He made a bad decision on this
@@user-lo7eo3nt6tIdc if he is or not he wouldn’t have let her go
Exactly, not worth losing your job possibly. Let her sit in the lounge till the boss comes and let boss lady make the decision.
7:28 The real horror is him putting dirty towels on top of the clean ones.
brooooooooo
you are soooooo right
lol ikr! I was like, "Cross contamination!"
He didn't....
Lol
Picking up laundry/trash without gloves? Ain’t no way!
I worked the night audit and a big chain hotel, and they nailed this. The ominous feeling, the mundane duties, the weird people, and the lonliness. It was kind of cringe when he gave her a key without at least checking to see who was in the room, but it added to the mystery. They even got the start time, correct.
Loved it...fantastic job!!!
I can imagine the night crawlers you got in. That is the term we used on the night shift where I worked. The night crawlers arrived after 2 AM.
Spooky with that horrible undertone of a crap job like that. Lots of elements combined to give it verasumilitude.
@@usedscar The isolation!!! And when he does get company, it's not company anyone would want.
@@usedscar That darkened hotel room scene..."Ruh-roh-RAGGY!"
This was done very well, my only complaint is the ending. Julian’s character was done so well that I actually started to care about his safety towards the end. But just as I found myself invested in finding out what happens to him and Helena, you end with the same cheap jump scare that’s so typical of the crappier short horror films. You did a great job on building up the plot, the uneasy setting is all the scare you need, I just felt like this one could’ve ended with a nicer ending. You could’ve put a jump scare when Julian enters the room, but then maybe follow with him somehow reassuring or comforting Helena’s spirit so that she could finally be at peace. And then end it off in the morning with his female coworker coming in and eventually seeing something that would indicate that there actually WAS somebody in room 320, then as she looks up at Julian in disbelief….THE END.
YES! This is exactly the ending I was hoping for myself. The scream at the end I couldn’t believe it . That’s it !? … whyyy!!!! lol upsetting though. What you wrote for an ending here is so much more complete. Because I was even feeling sorry for Julian that his boss was not very helpful, lol asking can u handle things every time she leaves. WTH? Lol that’s literally what he does every night. He deserved her acknowledgment about what was going on at night !
Agreed.
I was disappointed with the ending too.
Agreed or somehow we find out he's hallucinating from sleep deprivation.
@@scumming85 Agree this video gives a good twist about him working way too hard. Also the scene in which his boss tells him he left a cart on an elevator and he does not recall anything of the sort. So is it him cognitively impaired or is it the other characters?
Have to admit, it was a great story….great acting, thoroughly enjoyed. 🥰🥰🥰
Losing the room key happens often & they probably left ID in the room, but you should pull up the room info and ask them whose name the room is under as well as other identifying information to make sure their answers match the info u have. Giving someone who isn't familiar & acting suspect the key is a HARD no.
Finally someone said it. I was waiting for him to check the details on the records but he never did until his coworker told him about the room's vacancy like bro you should've done it when she checked in
Number 1- A Hero ain't nothing but a sandwich! Meaning, keep your nose out of business that doesn't concern you & stop trying to save the world. 🤣
Number 2 - if a news article states that the person you saw was kìlled in a murder-suicide, you leave it at that and either find a new job or don't answer the phone when it rings on cue at 12 midnight, nor do you walk your simple a$$ to the very room your boss told hasn't been occupied in MONTHS. Why? Because the ghost will eat you. 🤣😂
Number 3 - GREAT WORK!! I highly enjoyed this💯😊❤️
Pretty sad. The un-involved guy with three jobs gets victimized, that's another horror story itself.
13:37 Ben Stiller Jr. going full-on HAM...
Really did a good job making the scene feel lonely and isolated. Loved the acting too great job!
Very nice, had never seen this. I think those late night empty hotel lobbies are ripe for nightmares.
As an African American, we would NEVER go investigate anything alone, especially a possible ghost situation. But I still enjoyed the film. 😊
Make it about race!! 💪
Lol
TRUE BE TOLD ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Its why yall live lol
We fuck in cemeteries and shit bruh
I used to work with a man at a Head Start agency in Stockton, CA. At least 20 years later, and after I had moved to Sacramento, I was watching the local news and they announced that the man I used to work with, had a daughter that moved to Maryland to avoid the stalker boyfriend, he found out where she had moved to and went to where she lived and killed her.
Condolences
thats so sad. you hear a lot about ex`s stalking the ex partner and then murder is involved.
You don’t get paid or money to share that story, so why not just keep it to yourself? We are here to enjoy the horror film, not to be overwhelmed with multiple, non-fictional stories.
Horror is real. Monsters too.
So sad
Omg this movie was DOPE!!
I worked as a security officer at night everywhere .at night it's aloooot of crazy shid happening.... and I'd be the only one working in an old law firm... sometimes...and the weirdest thing that happened to me is when all the lights went off ... For 30 mins and I automatically got locked in ... Thank God for Xanax 😮.
At my job at 2 AM we got what we called the 'night crawlers'.
@@JessicaMcGowan-bu4ls ughhhhhh 😳😳😳😳😳
@@Tauraun7 correct. btw are you a taurus
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Pretty weak ending. I would have had to ghost tell her story and he could have offered some kind of redemption. The jump scare at the end is so cliche.
Especially with the stock sound horrorgirlscream4.wav
One time I got a doordash order going to a hotel at midnight. I didn't realize it was a hotel, wouldn't have taken it otherwise. The items were two tubs of corn starch. Just that. I thought it couldn't get weirder. So I'm driving to this hotel with the corn starch and I just thought the kitchen staff desperately needed it or something. Nope. I get there and I have to take it to a room. Front desk lady basically tells me to go knock on the room's door even though I implied I didn't want to. I knock on the door and prepare to just wait 5 seconds before I leave it on the ground and dip, but it opens quickly, to a PITCH BLACK room, then this tiny little woman pokes her head around the door, I just held out the bag of corn starch and she reaches for it, bare arms bare shoulders, I think she was actually naked. She thanks me and closes the door. Maybe she was a ghost and just wanted to feel more like a ghost, embrace her situation, by putting corn starch on her body. In all seriousness I don't know why the fuck this woman ordered 2 jugs of corn starch at midnight in a pitch black hotel room. I hope she was just gonna have fun making oobleck in the sink, as opposed to a sexual thing or using it to take a cut out of some cocaine.
fantastic short. creepy. i rekon there are many hotels that have hauntings. great job to all involved. loved this. when Julian looked up about no sleep and the brain, i was wondering if the rash that occured on his forehead had anything to do with the story as it was clear at the start then pretty bad by the end, but i was wrong. wasnt expecting the outcome. thumbs up
Lmaoooooooo my acne just sucked
@@colbyrange1345 Oh, shit! An actual response from one of the actors.
This was fantastic! awesome job!!! I see an upcoming director here, best of luck to you.
Omg poor girl’s soul need freedom,feel sad about Julian poor boy after knowing the truth he should not stay at the work place he could run away from the main entrance doors even he knew the truth he went to room 320 😨😰
Very enjoyable.
The setting was ideal and the acting was perfect.
The ending was typical and I was hoping for something different but you still did a fantastic job.
This is one of those short films you already know you’ll like from the very first few establishing shots and the first spoken line. In for a good time I think.
So proud of this one!❤
That was incredible!! Awesome job!! Excellent acting as well!! You now have a new subscriber!!
Did julian died at end??
There is no atmosphere in this move 😢 Seems like a good film study class project.
Good suspense, but anyone would call the cops or security guard once to accompany, silly to go in the room alone
This is great. When Helena shut the room door and it went dark, so creepy.
Great story, truly scary and lovely soundtrack! Excellent! 😊
That was awesome! An excellent soundtrack as well.
Thank you!❤
Yes, sound track was spot on.
@@montecheney6688 thank you!
Well done. Terrific performances and the soundtrack is great.
This is an amazing short film! Y’all should be proud of this. I wish you the best of luck in the future and I hope you keep making these.
I loved this horror short film,I loved the actors,the acting,the sound track and I loved the suspense.I even loved the quality plus i also rate this horror short film a 10/10⭐️🔥!
Good film terrific acting 🎥🎬
This is one of top independent horror films I've seen. Well done!!!
The suspense was great.
That was fantastic! Thank you for sharing and well-done!
14:18 I met folks like this “client” , before. If one ignores it, they get lost.
The ghosts are coming out to play..
I enjoyed it. Thought it was good. But wish we could know what happened to the young man. Did he survive? If so, i bet he quit that job. Lol
So well done! Spooked me
Dead-End-Job Lore.
I have to say this was excellent. The actors were very believable. These are the kinds of scary stories I love!!
This was well done. Acting was good too. I just feel like you're doing it a disservice with that ending. You need something stronger to go out on as opposed to your typical "jump scare." I know, I know, everybody's a critic. I just think you can make this POP with a much stronger ending. Kudos.
Phenomenal acting and build-up.
I think maybe he should have helped her cross over somehow…. It feels heartbreakingly incomplete
Hey the poor guy was not a priest/pastor/rabbi.
I can’t be the only one that loves working night shift! I love the night! Best part of the day if you ask me, the moment the sun goes down till just before the sun pops over the horizon!
Overall, very well done - entire cast of good actors. Movie was a slow burn, but the build up was good. Sooo creepy!!!
Really cool. All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy. Indeed it will.
I've never worked in a hotel, so I'm curious ... is it normal to have only ONE person working overnight? That seems to be a major problem just waiting to happen.
Yes, great acting and mysterious plot
The foreboding low background music reminds me of the original doom series... awesome.. Hurt me Plenty.
Great film!
Ive never been to a Hotel/Motel that leaves dirty towels outside the door😂
Amazing work 💯
I loved it. Well done
Wouldn't the day manager have remembered a murder/suicide that happened in room 320? Even if it happened at midnight, Im sure she would have heard about it regardless
Dates say it happened 23 years ago. 22:16 Maybe day manager was too young to have heard about it.
Awesome ! Good job.
Creepy as hell, although, set and performed in quite simple, minimalistic way. Loved it! ❤
worked security in a factory - minimum wage - night shift - guys came out and said some homeless people were way in the back where they stored grain products - so I went back towards that area - and I yelled out
"HEY, if you are back there - I just want you to know I called the cops - and they are coming - and you better clear out --- or else you will be charged with various crimes." then I ran back to where the people that worked there were - "took care of it" I said --- hey the place got their minimum wages worth.
Post Script - the supervisor came there one night as was giving me a lecture on how to conduct myself and I got out of the little hut - and I took shirt off and my pants off (the security uniform) and threw it at him and said "I quit - I will bring the other two uniform by tomorrow" - and he was saying "you can't quit in the middle of a shift." And I told him - better shut up because you will feel pretty bad when an almost naked man beats the shit out of you." and then I drove home in my underwear -- it was a very satisfying feeling. that is right I threw away my career in factory security - woe is me. back then $4.25 an hour.
I waited 27 minutes for THAT !!!
I enjoyed it, scary, and the actor who plays Julian was excellent. I've worked lots of graveyard shifts in hospitals and it is weird in the wee hours. And you hear and see strange things, perhaps from the lack of sleep. And perhaps...it's something more...
One of the best
Damn, that was a good one! Well done!
Loved it great storyline / acting my only problem with this is I work in hospitality and for such a large hotel there would never be just one or two people on nights?
Got this recommended & I'm very happy about it. Audio could be better there's some random sounds that don't match but I loved it I'm all in
Congratulations to whichever middle school wrote and directed this projecr.
Nice short movie, want more movies tho...
What happened at the end?
😂
Killer jump scare. JEeeeebus.
😊❤ 📽️🎞️* Excellent..i love it...Rob New York * 😘👌🌹🎬📽️
great horror short.....good acting
4:24 No way this man didn't start talking to himself. Nobody asked him how he was doing lmao. Wasn't Lisa....the one that walked into the hotel with no shoes?!?!? WHAT IS THIS lol
A short horror film shouldn't be any longer than 15 minutes....
A short horror film shouldn't take more than 2 minutes (maximum) for the first frightening scene to occur....
A short horror film should never....
Eh I don't have others lol.... just make them shorter, make them scarier, make them scarier faster.... it's 2024, you think people have attention spans these days?!?!?!
;)
Great movie in all seriousness!!
*This was fun! Thumbs Up!*
Loved it!!!
I was genuinely quite scared! But ending wasn't fleshed out enough.
Excellent 😱😱😱😱
Great Ghost story thanks
Great short horror. Had "Shining" written all over it though...😊
Good effort. Really enjoyed it. 👍👍
I work in hospitality, and he should be fired on the spot for giving her a key to a room without proper identification. Hypothetically, what if she went to a room, killed someone and left out. The hotel would be held responsibie for that. Wrong....
I was thinking the same thing.
He was just being kind to the poor girl!
@@user-lo7eo3nt6t you are an AI bot!!!
It’s just a story.
Entertainment allows us to strengthen our suspension of disbelief. Just think how boring our entertainment would be if everyone did just what they are supposed to do. Who'd watch that? Might as well just live lives ourselves if that's what it's down to.
I enjoyed this really good
Good movie xx
what happens after midnight STAYS after midnight. wait.... that didn't make sense. oh well....
EXCELLENT
Good build up .. sad to work in a lonesome place …well done short horror independent film😊
Watching worried about this nice young man!
Dam that was good!!!
He didn't take the 2 towels 😂
great acting
I don't know the black guy, but he's really good! Hollywood could benefit greatly by hiring him!
Nice work!
That was actually 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
So he works the front desk and is also the maid and there's no security
Gruesome good!!!
It could get a little creepy at night late hours working in a Hotel specially working the overnight alone and you barely ever see customer I know because I use to work in a Hotel and there were time I work overnight barely, hardly ever Check-in customer super late at night.
I am sorry to be the kind of person to point this out but at the beginning, the manager says it's 7 pm but when the guy clocks in the clock says it's 8. and when he's writing the email, he writes 1:15 pm when it should be am.
One word brilliant 👏 👌
this had me feeling that chill in my spine the whole time until the jump scare at the end. it kinda broke the immersion for me. other than that, excellent film.